Many of his Christian friends are still pressing him to try to be reconciled to his wife…his ex-wife. They do not know the full story…
Later he reflects that he and his former wife have achieved a kind of reconciliation; it includes a recognition that part of their reconciliation as people involves accepting that the marriage and all that relationship meant is definitely over for good.
In his time as a minister he has given help and counselling to several men going through painful separations. Mostly they do not deal with it well. He has seen men become a pale shadow of their former selves and effectively withdraw from life. He does not wish to become a victim.
He determines that he will not allow this event to define who he is. There will be life the other side of divorce, and he will embrace it…
Pilgrim Traveller 